it's too big an opportunity let us construction view of the government. stop us. we have to get the land. they did. skill and flexibility are things on the whole we like in a president. you shouldn't be surprised that someone of jefferson's record has skill and flebility. think about what he did. if he didn't have them the process and the long record would have seen it and blocked him from getting power. so the question isn't again that having -- being a low impact leader is not a bad thing. the easiest way to have an impact is to fail. there are many more ways to fail than succeed. most high impact leaders are bad. >> you also make the point that not only was jefferson seeing eye to eye with. major federalist approve this too. not all of them but the major one. in fact jobbed a damn -- job adams on record saying he was in favor and his son broke party ranks to vote in favor of the purchase. it's hard to imagine him doing that without the approval of his father. so as we see, you know, as we see in modern politics. a major incentive was to deny him the try yomp. w